ELI5: What are digital twins and why do I keep seeing this phrase?

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Just like the title, I would like to know what digital twins are, when they are used, how they came to be, and can they be used in semantic web and linked data or bioinformatics…

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  1. jamcdonald120 Avatar

    lets seee, 30 second google search for “digital twins”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin

    > A digital twin is a digital model of an intended or actual real-world physical product, system, or process (a physical twin) that serves as a digital counterpart of it for purposes such as simulation, integration, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.

    seems pretty straight forward. its the digital model of a product that you can do some virtual testing on. Like, render a future skyscraper to see what it does to the view of other buildings.

    Not sure why you specifically hear about it.